Reprint Time--Helena
A comment from the blogkeeper at Underbelly (thank you Buce) inspired me to look this up. I was fairly certain that I had reviewed the book in the recent past, and so I discovered this. a good book is worth appreciation--over and over and over again. Also, while you are appreciating, you might want to take in Underbelly's look at Helena as well. La Belle Hélène on March 18, 2005 8:11 AM In reading Helena last night I stumbled across a large number of passages I would like to share. But I thought the more important thing to share was an observation. Evelyn Waugh liked this best among his books. There are a good many reasons why this might be so: it is splendidly written--both the prose and the coherence are several notches above some of his earlier, more frenetic work. It is tightly done, with just the right strokes and exactly the right selection of detail. But I suspect the reason Waugh prized this above all the other works is that in t...
I tried to get into Ginsberg back when i was reading everything of Kerouac's I could lay my hands on.. I just couldn't do it..
ReplyDeleteI couldn't manage it with Burroughs either.. I just find them both to be too revolting personality wise for me to be interested in their work..
And the more I learned about Ginsberg and Burroughs the less I began to like Kerouac out of association with them...
At this point I prefer Ken Kesey...
Dear Lagomorph,
ReplyDeleteFirst, love the moniker--thank you so much for posting just so I could see that.
Second--agreed--I share the same problem, although I never much cared for Kerouac either--I can see the appeal, just didn't latch onto it myself.
Thank you.
shalom,
Steven